And he missed it so much he got involved with the Keating Five!
John McCain: A Noun, a verb, and POW.
FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, ALAN!!!!!
The only good POW is a dead POW. WOOT!
Conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan sums up the whole P.O.W. canard succinctly:
"Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession ... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks.
How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true? In fact, McCain at least knew somewhere that his own government knew he existed, that there were procedures to eventually release him, that he was on someone's radar. The average prisoner at Gitmo or in the other parts of the detention program believes that no one will ever save him, that he could be disappeared for ever, that there are no procedures for his eventual release and no government to remember him. If McCain uttered lies on tape to stop the torture, why would an Islamist tell the truth?
Nothing more accurately exposes the classic moral error of the Bush administration and its enablers in war crimes. If the enemy tortures, it defines their moral evil and all intelligence gleaned from such coercion is self-evidently false propaganda. If we do it, it isn't wrong, and it leads to good intelligence.
Got that? And these people have the gall to describe their ideological opponents as moral relativists."
I would add that following the 'logic' of your average Ayn Rand conservative, McCain ended up in that situation because of choices he made, and hence is due no special consideration for his suffering.
Following the 'logic' of your average 'swiftboat vets for truth' conservative, McCain ended up in prison because he was a second rate pilot who couldn't keep his bird in the air, so he got what he deserved.
This is becoming like Rudy's constant "9/11-ing" - people got pretty sick of that line, no matter how grave the actual circumstances actually were. Keep on beating that drum, Johnny. See how long people march to it.
@5 Hi Andrew! Welcome to your blog-away-from-blog!
He's gotta keep playing it. It's the only card in his deck.
Approximately 73 years ago, the best part of John McCain ran down the inside of his mother's thigh, pooled on the cold linoleum of the bathroom floor, and became a pale, yellow stain.
It's not like he was a corrupt DC insider for most of the forty years since he was in that prison.
oh, wait, he was.
@4 - well, being a POW may prove he "has what it takes to be a citizen", but President of the USA, not so much.
@9 - McCain - You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!
Does anyone really think it does Obama any benefit to scrutinize the real estate holdings of the candidates?...
"Obama Says He Regrets Land Deal With Fundraiser"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/16/AR2006121600729.html
"Obama Got Discount on Home Loan"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103008_pf.html
Yeah. No. I didn't think so.
Mentioning Rezko just invites everyone to bring up the subject of Charles Keating.
@12: It certainly does. You see, timing is everything, and Obama's housing flap was aired ages ago.
"Obama's Rezko ties deeper than land deal"
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/184540,122306obama.article
"The Rezko Connection: Obama's Achilles Heel?"
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=4111483
Which McCain is, no doubt, saving for after the convention...
@12 And all you can come up with is that old, debunked crap?
It's like a joke from a would-be SNL spoof..."This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison!!!!!!!."
Well, there was Rudy 9/11 Guilliani and now there's John POW McCain.
Besides, it's not like he was tortured. He was just interogated in an inhanced way.
Leave 12/15 alone. Just a bitter old queen.
playing the "POW Card"! i love it. BHO's people got McCain's to shoot their Rezco wad BEFORE the convention!
In addition to not knowing how many houses he owns, (the count so far is 8), his elitist friends use sheets of treasury notes, (i.e. money) for fu*king wrapping paper.
http://web.me.com/eronotcasek/POWERHOUSE/powerhouse.html
John McCain - A common man.
Not.
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